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February 8, 2023 Shilpa Ashok Pandit
There is substantial literature on cognition, and indeed, it is conventional to assume that consciousness and cognitive processes are co-determinate. The question that Indian psychology asked millennia ago is more radical – Do we see the reality as it is? Without getting into disciplinary siloes of metaphysics and philosophy, this question is central to cognitive psychology. Human cognition can...
February 8, 2023 Shilpa Ashok Pandit
Consciousness is experienced as embodied in the human experience. The chapter disabuses the notions that consciousness in Indian psychology is otherworldly and, therefore, disembodied. Indeed, IKS presents a nuanced conceptualization of three bodies. These three bodies are also seen in Buddhist texts. One of the three bodies is the physical body; the rest are the bodies in consciousness. The...
February 8, 2023 Shilpa Ashok Pandit
The greatest tragicomedy in the human enterprise, esp. in psychology, is the challenges in defining the philosophies of mind and consciousness. Euro-American philosophies assume that the philosophy of mind is the philosophy of consciousness. Vedānta, which is perhaps the only authentic philosophy of consciousness and not a philosophy of mind assumes that mind is a particular process through...
Religions February 7, 2023 Rita Anne McNamara
This paper explores dimensions of culture and practice that shape the cognitive pathways leading to different beliefs about God(s)’ mind(s). Varying socio-ecological sources of insecurity are linked to types and modes of cognitive processing, which in turn promote different constellations of beliefs about supernatural agents dubbed the heuristic and non-heuristic models of God(s)’ mind(s). The...
bioRxiv Preprint Server February 5, 2023 Tom Froese, Natalya Weber, Ivan Shpurov et al. 6 citations preprint
The theory of autopoiesis has been influential in many areas of theoretical biology, especially in the fields of artificial life and origins of life. However, it has not managed to productively connect with mainstream biology, partly for theoretical reasons, but arguably mainly because deriving specific working hypotheses has been challenging. The theory has recently undergone significant...
Annals of General Psychiatry February 3, 2023 Daniël J. Siegel, Chloe Drulis 44 citations
This article outlines an Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) perspective on the fundamental components that comprise mental health and promote well-being. The central aim of this paper is to answer essential but often overlooked questions related to the field of mental health, such as: What is the mind? What is the basis of well-being? What is the self and how does it develop? We will offer...
February 2, 2023
Abstract: Recent debates on phenomenal consciousness have shown renewed interest for the idea that experience generally includes an experience of the self—a self-experience—whatever else it may present the self with. When a subject has an ordinary experience (as of a bouncing red ball, for example), the thought goes, she is not just phenomenally aware of the world as being presented in a...
The American journal of clinical nutrition February 2023 Jinyue Yu, Zhuang Wei, Jonathan Ck Wells et al.
Maternal stress is one modifiable variable that could influence mother-infant signaling and negatively affect breastfeeding and infant growth. This study aimed to test the hypothesis that relaxation therapy would reduce maternal stress and improve infant growth, behavior, and breastfeeding outcomes after late preterm (LP) and early-term (ET) delivery. A single-blind randomized controlled trial...
Consciousness and Cognition February 2023 Maria T Chu, Elizabeth M. Marks, Cassandra L Smith et al.
Mind wandering, also known as task-unrelated thought, refers to the drift of attention from a focal task or train of thought. Because self-caught measures of mind wandering require participants to spontaneously indicate when they notice their attention drift, self-caught methodologies provide a way to measure mind wandering with meta-awareness. Given the proposed role of meta-awareness in...
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience February 1, 2023 Andrew A Fingelkurts, Alexander A Fingelkurts
Medical well-regarded policy recommendations for patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) are almost exclusively relied on behavioural examination and evaluation of higher-order cognition, and largely disregard the patients’ self. This is so because practically establishing the presence of self-awareness or Selfhood is even more challenging than evaluating the presence of consciousness....